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"We're Not 'Victims'. We're People Like You": How the Media Re-traumatise Bereaved Families.

"We're Not 'Victims. We're People Like You": How the Media Re-traumatise Bereaved Families- contribution by PFC Advocacy Support Worker Anne Cadwallader to the 'Victimhood and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland' conference at Queens on Monday 14th May 2018.

Facts about Atrocity: Reporting Colonial Violence in Postwar Britain

2 February 2018 | 22 August 2017

ABSTRACT What did people in Britain know about the violence of counterinsurgency campaigns at the end of empire in the 1940s and 1950s? In many ways, British knowledge about colonial violence was widespread. But it was also fragmented and ambiguous: whispered among family and friends; dramatized in...

Security 'secrecy' still spooking nationalists

Belfast Telegraph | 12 April 2011

The past week was a watershed in republican attitudes to the police. But the ongoing presence of MI5 is the stumbling block to a total acceptance, argues Brian Rowan. A lot changed last week, but there is more that needs to change. You find the task and the challenge in the words of Nuala Kerr as sh...

Family of Pat Finucane respond to the early release of convicted murderer Ken Barrett

PFC | 23 May 2006

Speaking on behalf of the Finucane family Michael Finucane said: "The release of Ken Barrett was inevitable and although the timing is perhaps a little surprising, the event itself is not. However, the significance of Mr. Barrett should not be overestimated. The real focus for my family is to succee...

Press Statement on behalf of the Finucane Family and United States House of Representatives Resolution 740

PFC | 19 May 2006

On 17th May 2006 in Washington, DC, the United States House of Representatives voted in favour of House Resolution 740, which calls on the British Government to establish immediately a full, independent, public judicial inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, as recommended by international Judge P...

Pat Finucane and the Inquiries Act - Amnesty International calls for boycott

Amnesty International | 20 April 2005

Amnesty International calls on all judges, whether in the United Kingdom (UK) or in other jurisdictions, to decline appointments as chairs or panel members to any inquiry established under the recently enacted Inquiries Act 2005, including an inquiry into allegations of state collusion in the murder...

Inquiries Bill Passed

PFC Press Statement | 07 April 2005

As feared the Inquiries Bill passed the final stages in Westminster earlier today despite the strong objections of NGOs, the legal community and most importantly, the Finucane family. The new legislation is widely perceived as a legislative attempt to deny the Finucane family access to vital informa...

Letter from Mrs Geraldine Finucane to all senior judges in England, Scotland and wales

Mrs Geraldine Finucane | 14 April 2005

Mrs Geraldine Finucane has written a letter to all senior judges in England Scotland and Wales requesting that, if asked, they indicate that they would not be prepared to accept any appointment to an Inquiries Act inquiry, into the murder of her husband

The Inquiries Bill: The Wrong Answer.

A Joint Statement by Amnesty International, British Irish Rights Watch, The Committee on the Administration of Justice, Human Rights First, The Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, INQUEST, JUSTICE, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, T | 22 March 2005

The above-listed organisations jointly express our concern over some of the provisions of the Inquiries Bill introduced into Parliament on 24th November 2004. The Bill, being discussed this week by a Standing Committee of the House of Commons, would, if enacted, alter fundamentally the system for es...

Amended Inquiries Bill – British Irish Rights Watch

British Irish Rights Watch | 24 January 2005

The Inquiries Bill as amended by the House of Lords in Committee and at the Report stage, and with further proposed government amendments highlighted in red. These (very minor) amendments will be discussed at the Third Reading in the House of Lords on the 28th.

Joint Committee on Human Rights report on the Inquiries Bill

Joint Committee on Human Rights | 24 January 2005

The Joint Committee on Human Rights, a parliamentary committee made up of members of both Houses of Parliament which monitors the compatibility of legislation with the European Convention of Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998, published its report on the Inquiries Bill. The Committee voiced...

Summary of the JCHR concerns from British Irish Rights Watch

Joint Committee on Human Rights | 24 January 2005

On Monday 24th January the Joint Committee on Human Rights, a parliamentary committee made up of members of both Houses of Parliament which monitors the compatibility of legislation with the European Convention of Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998, published its report on the Inquiries Bill...

CAJ Proposed amendments to Inquiries Bill

Committee on the Administration of Justice | 15 January 2005

The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) prepared a preliminary commentary on the Inquiries Bill dated December 2004 previously circulated to all Members of the House of Lords. We have subsequently had two exchanges of correspondence with Baroness Ashton and these exchanges are available...